Yuanfan Yang – Twilight for Tenor and Piano, Poem by Misak Metsarents

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Yuanfan Yang – Twilight for Tenor and Piano (2024)
Poem by Misak Metsarents (1907)
Written for Arpine Kalinina
Berj Karazian – Tenor
Anahit Dilbaryan – Piano

Like a girl in saffron walking
Under pine trees toward the flowering
pomegranate grove
the dusk passes.

And twilight falls
like a sweet-smelling iris of many shades of blue
wilting, dying, folding itself over a thin yellow
stamen of hope.

Then it is dark.
My soul has long been in the dark
where evening waited paste light of dreams.

In the bright false day of the moon
I can count the dreams that pushed despair
off my shoulders.

But the dreams are orphaned and gone now.
And it is starting to rain in my soul.
The girl in saffron has gone.
My hand is empty.

The piece was written especially for the British and Armenian Musical Bridge project in 2024.

British and Armenian Musical Bridge – 10th Anniversary Concert
Komitas Museum-Institute, July 19, 2025
Project Initiator & Organiser: Arpine Kalinina